"prereqs" or "coreqs"?

[BelleNscrubs04]

I was hoping some different people could reply and clarify something for me. I often see posts describing nursing school on here and peole refer to taking their prereqs before nursing school. My school actually has co-reqs, although we often refer to them as prereqs because in reality they wind up being that mostly. You are technically able to do a nursing degree in two years. If your TEAs V score and high school grades are high enough you can start school and take all your academic classes (coreqs) at the same time as your nursing classes. You might also take some of them before you start the nursing program (you are awarded points for entry for some of them but not others) and take some while in the nursing program. The nursing dept instructors routinely recommend that you take as many as you can before beginning the nursing program especially if you work at all or have children. I am not trying to nit-pic just to clarify whether the difficulty of nursing school usually described is including other classes than nursing classes or not and to see if the way my state does it is unusual or typical for an ADN program. I hope to start the nursing program in the fall and I will have all of my prereqs (actually coreqs) out of the way already so I will only be taking nursing courses. My best friend went to nursing school a few yeas ago (she's now an RN) and she took almost all of hers at the same time. It almost killed her (she worked too) but she finished and got her license.

[chorkle]

My advisor strongly recommended getting all the coreqs (& prereqs, of course) out of the way before applying, as, she said, many students have found it difficult to manage the demands of NS along with coreqs yet to be done.

I took that as an intentional understatement, in the manner of 'a word to the wise . . '

Yes, some of the prereqs/coreqs have their own prereqs.

But, my perspective, from long life, is different from that of many; I've always been atypical. And, it has to be recognized--one might not be accepted into NS, no matter how badly one thinks one wants it. One adapts.

Caliotter said it well. If you didn't quite pick up on that, you might want to review it more closely.